Satellite and Wireless Links Issues in Healthcare Monitoring

Rahim Kacimi; Ponia Pech

Personal Satellite Services. 5th International ICST Conference, PSATS 2013, Toulouse, France, June 27-28, 2013, Revised Selected Papers

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Satellite and Wireless Links Issues in Healthcare Monitoring

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-319-02762-3_5,
    author={Rahim Kacimi and Ponia Pech},
    title={Satellite and Wireless Links Issues in Healthcare Monitoring},
    proceedings={Personal Satellite Services. 5th International ICST Conference, PSATS 2013, Toulouse, France, June 27-28, 2013, Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={PSATS},
    year={2013},
    month={10},
    keywords={Vital sign monitoring health-care monitoring wireless sensor networks wireless body networks satellite telemedicine},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-319-02762-3_5}
}

Rahim Kacimi
Ponia Pech
Year: 2013
Satellite and Wireless Links Issues in Healthcare Monitoring
PSATS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02762-3_5

Rahim Kacimi¹^,*, Ponia Pech²^,*

1: University of Toulouse, IRIT-UPS
2: TéSA Association Lab.

*Contact email: rahim.kacimi@irit.fr, ponia.pech@tesa.prd.fr

Abstract

Thanks to the facilities offered by telecommunications, telemedicine today allows physicians and clinicians to access, monitor and diagnose patients remotely. Telemedicine includes several applications such as remote monitoring of chronically ill patients, monitoring people in their everyday lives to provide early detection and intervention for various types of diseases, computer-assisted physical rehabilitation in ambulatory settings, and assisted living for the elderly at home. These new applications require a reliable, wireless communication link between the devices implanted in the patient’s skin and a clinician. In this article, this issue is discussed and a list of performance criteria for the different communication links used is addressed, especially focusing on the satellite link.

Keywords: Vital sign monitoring health-care monitoring wireless sensor networks wireless body networks satellite telemedicine

Published: 2013-10-08

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02762-3_5